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Source: John E. Douglas for Santa Barbara Medicare for All
Local activists, today, Saturday, April 17, are hosting a series of rallies in downtown Santa Barbara, urging state legislators to pass AB 1400, the California Guaranteed Health Care for All (CalCare), a statewide equivalent to federal bills calling for Medicare for All.
Participants will practice physical distancing, wear masks, and observe other Covid safety guidelines. Walking between rallies will be on sidewalks and the State Street mall
Participants will meet at 1 p.m. at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse on the Anacapa Street side to share and make signs. After a short rally at about 1:35 pm, marchers will walk two blocks west on Anapamu Street to the offices of Assemblymember Steve Bennett, 101 W. Anapamu St.
COVID drives medical students into political activism
12 hours ago Doctors, nurses and other health care workers participate in an event in solidarity with George Floyd and other coloured Americans killed by police officers, at the Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, California. File/Agence France-Presse
Victoria Knight,
Tribune News Service
Inam Sakinah and her classmates will forever be known as the students who started medical school during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
All of them had prepared for this step for years, taking hours of hard science classes in college, studying for the medical school admissions test and often volunteering, working or even getting master’s or other advanced degrees before starting on the long path to earning a medical degree.
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